top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-12-26

Takeaways from coaching CEOs, founders and VCs

https://leowid.com/2019-2

6 years ago

533 upvotes – 111 comments

OnlyKey: Open-Source Alternative to YubiKey

https://onlykey.io/

6 years ago

448 upvotes – 211 comments

Show HN: Eschersket.ch – a symmetry drawing app to design custom wrapping paper

https://eschersket.ch

6 years ago

386 upvotes – 27 comments

I love coding in C

https://lord-left.github.io/posts/love-coding-c.html

6 years ago

346 upvotes – 424 comments

Dropbox Transfer

https://www.dropbox.com/transfer/about

6 years ago

303 upvotes – 215 comments

Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease [pdf]

https://www.gwern.net/docs/longevity/2019-decabo.pdf

6 years ago

297 upvotes – 210 comments

Kaboom: an unusual Minesweeper

https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom/

6 years ago

292 upvotes – 68 comments

88% of Americans use a second screen while watching TV

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/88-of-americans-use-a-second-screen-while-watching-tv-why/

6 years ago

291 upvotes – 218 comments

I only use an iFrame to crawl and scrape content

http://www.airovic.com/itsjustaniframe.html

6 years ago

287 upvotes – 49 comments

Nim vs. Crystal

https://embark.status.im/news/2019/11/18/nim-vs-crystal-part-1-performance-interoperability/index.html

6 years ago

274 upvotes – 147 comments

Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined

https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2019/09/03/hepatitis-c-all-adults-in-u-s-under-80-should-be-tested/

6 years ago

266 upvotes – 259 comments

NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs

https://snyk.io/blog/why-npm-lockfiles-can-be-a-security-blindspot-for-injecting-malicious-modules/

6 years ago

259 upvotes – 73 comments

Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21884828

6 years ago

226 upvotes – 277 comments

MIT lecture series on deep learning in January 2020

https://deeplearning.mit.edu/

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 31 comments

I Quit Google to Work for Myself (2018)

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

6 years ago

200 upvotes – 168 comments

The FAA Proposal for Drone Remote ID

https://www.faa.gov/uas/research_development/remote_id/

6 years ago

175 upvotes – 153 comments

The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants

https://www.thegivingblock.com/post/pineapple-fund-bitcoin-donated-to-nonprofits-here-s-what-happened

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 53 comments

Thoughts On a Year of Exercise

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2019/12/26/thoughts-on-a-year-of-exercise/

6 years ago

166 upvotes – 194 comments

Machine Learning Reproducibility Checklist [pdf]

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~jpineau/ReproducibilityChecklist.pdf

6 years ago

160 upvotes – 29 comments

Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983)

https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-08/1983_08_BYTE_08-08_The_C_Language#page/n399/mode/2up

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 37 comments

Americans are retiring to Vietnam

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-25/americans-are-retiring-to-vietnam-for-cheap-health-care-and-a-decent-living-standard

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 245 comments

AirPods Are Becoming a Platform?

https://www.aboveavalon.com/notes/2019/11/19/airpods-are-becoming-a-platform

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 284 comments

Stuff I Learnt in 2019

http://bollu.github.io/#stuff-i-learnt-in-2019

6 years ago

152 upvotes – 28 comments

ISO week date

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date

6 years ago

141 upvotes – 84 comments

Lawmakers Warn Against Private Equity Firm's .Org Takeover

https://gizmodo.com/top-lawmakers-warn-against-private-equity-firms-org-ta-1840612552

6 years ago

140 upvotes – 11 comments

Here’s the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12

https://twitter.com/rickbrewpdn/status/1210023029087985664

6 years ago

138 upvotes – 32 comments

Ask HN: 2020 goals and resolutions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21886250

6 years ago

135 upvotes – 145 comments

Where do individual contributors go once they peak?

https://tannerchristensen.com/blog/2019/12/23/where-ic-designers-go-once-they-peak

6 years ago

132 upvotes – 135 comments

Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06670v1

6 years ago

128 upvotes – 9 comments

Network.framework: A Modern Alternative to Sockets (2018)

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/715/

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 45 comments

Announcing the New PubMed

https://becker.wustl.edu/news/announcing-the-new-pubmed/

6 years ago

120 upvotes – 42 comments

The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters

https://blog.apaonline.org/2019/04/08/the-ethical-failures-behind-the-boeing-disasters/

6 years ago

119 upvotes – 70 comments

Alcohol and social bonding in humans (2018)

https://www.ft.com/content/c5ce0834-9a64-11e8-9702-5946bae86e6d

6 years ago

117 upvotes – 87 comments

iKe: a browser-based sandbox for K

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/ike/ike.html

6 years ago

116 upvotes – 28 comments

Toxic fumes from idling cruise ships are still a problem in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/nyregion/cruise-ship-exhaust-shore-power-nyc.html

6 years ago

114 upvotes – 67 comments

The perpetuation of bonded labor in Pakistan

https://www.dw.com/en/life-of-slavery-the-perpetuation-of-bonded-labor-in-pakistan/a-51792298

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 59 comments

Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

https://www.tomasmartty.com/start-marketing-the-day-you-start-coding-by-rob-walling/

6 years ago

104 upvotes – 37 comments

Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

https://blog.pizzabox.computer/posts/installing-aux-quadra/

6 years ago

102 upvotes – 58 comments

In New York, Making Ends Meet on a 5-Cent Recycling Deposit

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/nyregion/collecting-cans-collectors-nyc.html

6 years ago

97 upvotes – 98 comments

7GUIs: A GUI Programming Benchmark (2018)

https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 16 comments

Ask HN: How do you justify taking unpaid vacation as self employed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21883625

6 years ago

93 upvotes – 121 comments

Single-Assignment C

http://www.sac-home.org/doku.php

6 years ago

91 upvotes – 43 comments

Dog insurer: 'jumping, running, slipping, tripping, playing' not covered (2016)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pet-insurer-says-dog-not-covered-if-injured-jumping-running-slipping-tripping-or-playing-1.3781371

6 years ago

88 upvotes – 106 comments

Washington’s new anti-robocall law won’t stop the calls

https://www.wsj.com/articles/washingtons-new-anti-robocall-law-wont-stop-the-calls-heres-why-11577367931

6 years ago

86 upvotes – 90 comments

Lego Block Structures as a Sub-Kelvin Thermal Insulator

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55616-7

6 years ago

85 upvotes – 11 comments

Dolphin Scheduler

https://github.com/apache/incubator-dolphinscheduler

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 25 comments

Source Code Linking: Merging C Headers into Rust Modules

https://immunant.com/blog/2019/12/header_merging/

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 6 comments

You have to follow the recipe

https://theoutline.com/post/8307/follow-recipe-baking-thanksgiving

6 years ago

77 upvotes – 70 comments

Chimpanzees Spontaneously Dance to Music

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-chimpanzees-spontaneously-music.html

6 years ago

73 upvotes – 53 comments

Generative adversarial networks: What GANs are and how they’ve evolved

https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/26/gan-generative-adversarial-network-explainer-ai-machine-learning/

6 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

GPS Is Going Places

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/gps-is-going-places/

6 years ago

69 upvotes – 20 comments

Z’s Still Not Dead Baby, Z’s Still Not Dead

https://24ways.org/2019/zs-still-not-dead-baby-zs-still-not-dead/

6 years ago

67 upvotes – 11 comments

Multi-factor authentication isn't necessarily strong

https://www.sweharris.org/post/2019-06-09-softtoken/

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 35 comments

How to Manage Apache Airflow with Systemd on Debian or Ubuntu

https://janakiev.com/blog/apache-airflow-systemd/

6 years ago

66 upvotes – 38 comments
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